introduction: current communication and information management systems first rely on paper and radio communications for identifying histories and tracking damaged people in times of crisis. these traditional systems have significant limitations in times of crisis. one of the most important of these limitations is that paper based systems make a static and fixed in place information repository w...

Medication reconciliation (MR) is a process that seeks to assure that the medications a patient is supposed to take are the same as what they are actually taking. We have developed a method in which medication information (consisting of both coded data and narrative text) is extracted from twelve sources from two clinical information systems and assembled into a chronological sequence of medica...

OBJECTIVE Pharmacists can play an important role as leaders to reduce patient safety risks, optimize the safe function of medication management systems, and align pharmacy services with national initiatives that measure and reward quality performance. The objective of this article is to determine the actions that pharmacists can take to create a visible and sustainable safe medication managemen...

BACKGROUND While evidence generally supports the use of medication management technology, systems are typically implemented and evaluated piecemeal rather than as part of a comprehensive model for medication management. Systems to support drug therapy optimization, increasingly a key role of pharmacists in our healthcare system, have not yet been reported. OBJECTIVE Our objective is to descri...

BACKGROUND Electronic Patient Medication Record (ePMR) systems have important safety features embedded to alert users about potential clinical hazards and errors. To date, there is no synthesis of evidence about the effectiveness of these safety features and alerts at the point of pharmacy order entry. This review aims to systematically explore the literature and synthesise published evidence a...

background: drugs play a strategic role as a health commodity. thus, the supply chain management of drugs is an important issue to reducing costs and thereby improving patient health. objective: this study evaluated the status of drug supply chain management and health reform in the pharmaceutical sector of teaching hospitals in ahvaz, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out i...

Despite advances in electronic medication order entry systems, it has been well established that clinicians override many drug allergy alerts generated by the electronic health record. The direct clinical consequences of overalerting clinicians in a pediatric setting have not been well demonstrated in the literature. We observed a patient in the PICU who experienced complications as a result of...

In this paper we describe the system design of a piezoelectric MEMS energy harvesting module based on analytical modeling. The application example of a wireless sensor node for tire condition monitoring is considered. Key specifications which are taken into account are the power budget for the system operation, the system mass and the area consumption. System considerations comprise the generat...

Great River Medical Center (GRMC) is a 378-bed regional facility offering acute and intermediate care to residents of southeast Iowa, west-central Illinois, and northeast Missouri. The hospital, which admits more than 6,500 patients and logs more than 190,000 outpatient visits annually, offers comprehensive medical and extensive surgical services. In 2013, GRMC began a patient safety initiative...